Marriage cost a lot. This year 1 of my mentor is getting married, my sister and her boyfriend might be, and a couple of friends are also engaged. Looking at the way they plan their budget for the wedding, I'm not sure I can afford to get married at my preferred age of 25 unless I relocate to some ulu country where the cost of living does not equate to me slaving half of my life just to get a property to call my own, or I can always get married when my insurance matures in like 50 years time.
I mean, a wedding banquet, the staple of many chinese wedding alone cost at least 10k. Then there are all the other necessities like wedding shoots, the gowns and the tux, the apartment, the pre-nup agreements (you got to pay the lawyers), honeymoon, and payments to so and so for providing their 101 services your wedding needs. Without a basic budget of 25-30k, I think it'll be hard for you to even plan a wedding day.
And that's just day 1. For the rest of your life you're stuck with one person who you vow to support and pamper, and she won't come cheap. Not with the way designer bags are all over the place, and where the streets are littered with upscale restaurants. Then maybe she'll stop working and you better pray you earn more than enough to cover all expenses, because enough is not enough.
Not that true love doesn't exist. It just doesn't come cheap.
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